This afternoon it was such a beautiful day, that I decided to get a little more adventurous. So clutching my very detailed directions in my hand, I ventured down a different direction to the street market they have every week-end. I know how to ask if someone speaks English, and I know how to say that I am sorry, but my Spanish is very bad. So armed with those two phrases, along with please and thank you, and clutching my purse to me I ventured in. It was fabulous! Almost no one speaks English, but everyone is very nice. Using hand signals, smatterings of English and Spanish, and a very limited understanding of the money I managed to purchase incense (I understood the price and the lady was very nice), a pink plastic pitcher for iced tea (the lady got a boy from the next stall to help us translate- badly), and a bunch of purple flowers (I'm still not really sure how much I payed for them).
Along the way I have discovered several fabulous looking restaurants, a pharmacy (farmacia), and wait for it... an amazing book store that also has a restaurant and is in what I guess to be a 19th century mansion. I didn't really delve in too much because my hands were full and I wanted to get home before the rain storm, but it will definitely be worthy of an outing all on its own.
I haven't taken the camera outside yet because I am too busy watching where I'm going, but please enjoy the picture of my purchases and my beginnings of a library. I am also posting my comfortable space where I read and blog, and a picture of what can only be described as the world's coolest apartment key.
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